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"UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’"
Exclusive: Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to riseLinda Geddes (The Guardian)
Look at these cutiebeans!
We still have ONE hour of us matching your donations, for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals!
$1500 of donation matching remains! Let's get that filled and hit our goal!
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/FFLSeattle
Donations and more info: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/FFLSeattle
I gave the Grim Reaper a glow up! ✨🌈
Full video here: https://youtu.be/u9HY8gzOV0Y
Grim reaper? Nah, more like the Grim RAVER!Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYesProducer: Alex J'Rassic @alexjrassic Camera: Tom Scott @TomScottGo La...YouTube
Ugh, just my luck! I move away and just a few months later a comic con starts up in my old area, just 5 miles from where I used to live.
(Admittedly it's being held at a primary school, which suggests it might not be a particularly large event…)
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¡Damas y caballeros! ¡Prepárense para los Fursuit Games del siglo! O al menos eso dice mi guión que diga.
Los monstruos han invadido la convención y solo los más valientes héroes y heroínas podrán salvar el evento de las garras del Dr. Demente (antes Dr. Enchilada, ugh, ¿Porqué tuvo que rebrandearse su nombre?).
Divididos en dos equipos, los Rudos y los Técnicos. ¿Podrán derrotar a los monstruos? ¿Qué equipo será mucho más competente?
Fursuit Games organizados por el grandioso Steelical y yo, durante Confuror, en Guadalajara, México.
Pueden ver los juegos en YouTube:
https://youtu.be/gwj9KsFm0ls?si=crWV8F3sA9bXjZuh
El tema de la convención fue "Monstruos vs Luchadores", inspirado en las películas mexicanas de ciencia ficción de los 50s y 60s, protagonizadas por peleadores famosos de la lucha libre mexicana.
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Ladies and gentlemen! Get ready for the Fursuit Games of the century! At least that's what my script tells me to say.
Monsters have invaded the convention and only the bravest heroes will be able to save the event from the clutches of Dr. Demente (formerly Dr. Enchilada, ugh, why did he have to rebrand his name?).
Divided into two teams, the Rudos and the Técnicos. Will they be able to defeat the monsters? Which team will be much more proficiency?
Fursuit Games organized by the great Steelical and myself, during Confuror, in Guadalajara, Mexico.
You can watch the games here:
https://youtu.be/gwj9KsFm0ls?si=crWV8F3sA9bXjZuh
The theme of the convention was "Monstruos vs. Luchadores" inspired by Mexican science fiction films from the 50s and 60s, starring famous Mexican lucha libre wrestlers.
Digital. Procreate and Photoshop.
You can see the time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission at my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
The video only includes the Procreate part. The rest of effects, lettering and composition was done in Photoshop.
If you want to watch the full time-lapse process, and also the version with no lettering, new pictures that I haven't posted on my galleries yet, WIPs, and more exclusive thins, support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco or Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!!
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It isn't always about big conventions and events - #FursuitFriday can be nice chill times with friends!!
Picture 1: just being my cute and curious self.
Picture 2: SMUSH DAT FLUFFDERG
🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 Rattie
Happy Halloween, y'all! Reaching all the way back to 1996 for this photo of Ysengrin at Haunted Verdun Manor.
#Halloween #Werewolf #Haunt #VerdunManor
Terrible idea: a scifi story set in a early-20th century idea of the solar system.
Mars is a dying desert covered in canals to bring water from the poles to the sand cities at the equator.
Venus is a humid jungle/swamp full of strange beasts.
Both are fully habitable by humans with no more gear than you'd need to cross the Sahara or venture into the rainforest.
The trick? This is actually a distant future realistic setting. We terraformed the planets specifically to be like that.
It’s Halloween night. Claud, the tiger, thought they could get away with it at getting the two candy buckets, they were sneaking one when BAM!! A ferocious shadow figure appears behind!!
It was Winter, the red panda, wrapped loosely like a mummy and with a mischievous grin!
For the first time the “scary” wah pose worked!
Happy Halloween!!
Enjoy it! Don’t eat too much candy, share them with your panda friends!
Pic for Winter, the red panda, and Claud, the tiger.
Digital. Procreate.
You can see the short time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission at my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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more things should have copy-on-write functionality
if not because it makes it any better, because you now get to say "my language/file system has cow"
It's one thing for traffic to be disrupted, your city stopped, and +100 deaths to be caused by a human-triggered weather event.
It's something so much more disturbing, even unbearable, to have a journey deliberately delayed by young punks.
(Very rough numbers) The deliberate acts of 9/11 killed as many USians as tobacco kills every week.
+1,000,000 innocent Iraqis were killed to avenge the insult of 9/11.
And 2000 USians have died every week since 2001 from tobacco usage.
So, maybe you already heard about it, botsin.space will shut down somewhere next year. Around December, it will go into Read-Only and probably finally shut down around March next year...
https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/
At the moment I don't know any alternatives to botsin.space and since we are posting images almost every day it's probably not wanted everywhere?
So question to all of you, does anyone know alternative bot instances?
Please add @Kuraiko if you answer 🙂
tiggi.es admin also offers shelter to bots https://tiggi.es/@LeoBurr/113397382942341912
Tiggi.es is open for #botsinspace folks who are interested in what our community is about. Current instance size is 2TB on enterprise NVMe with room to grow.We're one of the few small instances out there that can handle larger migrations with ease. If you think you might help with expanding our little community, feel free to apply for an account.
In 2000, John Donovan, vice president of a Silicon Valley research firm, was quoted saying "The hard-drive market is out of whack, and manufacturers are killing themselves economically. They're producing massive drives most people will never be able to fill, and removable drives are aggressively competing for their business."
His concern? The first 80GB drives.
Could you get by with 80GB today? Most people have more than that on their phone.
I saved the quote specifically to recall it someday because it was blatantly short-sighted, and he got paid for being an expert, making me very jealous. ;)
Are you still around, John? :) Just a friendly ribbing.
My partner, the ever wonderful @Kyu , has a delightful print of a picture of a cat who is smoking a pipe with a smugly manic expression. Somehow it has become lore that this cat was a 'great innovator' in computing during the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's. Working for Groupe Vache, they were instrumental in the ill-fated Système/Chat line of mini and mainframe computers.
Amongst the many innovative features that were present in some of the Système/Chat range were things like:
The three quarter adder, which had sum, carry and ask again later outputs.
The arithmetic and illogic unit, to produce perverse results from perfectly sound and sanitised data sets. It was particularly popular with governments.
Drape storage, which ran several turns of a magnetic tape around a drum and wrote data across the resulting 'drum' in parallel. The idea was to give the convenience of parallel storage but the price of tape. Data was read by random chance.
Book fault, an exception generated by the main processor to conveniently bind several page faults into a single exception, for faster handling.
BOC, or branch on chance, 50% of the time it branches every time.
AWDATTS, a processor instruction that could be issued by anyone with system manager rights to ask what the system was doing and tell it to stop it immediately.
Spin unlocking. All resources were locked by default and threads needed to spin until the supervisor felt they really genuinely did need access and could be bothered to unlock it.
Subvisor, like the supervisor, but clandestine and hard to find and interrogate. (c.f. Windows)
Mechanical key encryption, a system where by in order to encrypt or decrypt anything, the user had to insert 4096 individual keys into 4096 lock barrels and then turn them left or right to indicate whether the binary of the encryption key had a zero or one in that position.
Reading a lot of #ScienceFiction, it's easy to be disappointed by the real world. But I've always felt that it's not the big things, like having no FTL drives or time machines. The little things are where it's at.
Fridges should be stasis chambers, so you can keep hot things in them too. Kitchen utensils should be forcefields, so you turn them off instead of washing them.
And today's thought: tables should use antigravity, so they're just a hovering tabletop, with no legs to bash your knee on!
‘Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air.’
#WealthInequality
#RichPolluters
#ClimateBreakdown
Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5CJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
You know, really thinking about it I've realized why so many people can't be bothered to do anything about reclaiming their privacy. It's because doing so means not using Chrome, ChromeOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Xitter, iOS, Macs, etc...
The apathy has existed so long, and the problem is now so endemic to all things tech, that giving it up basically means giving up the tools and services the vast majority of people use every day.
This issue is now so bad, that there's no functional way to even "vote with our wallets" to get rid of it. There's literally nowhere else to turn for most users. And every available option requires they give up things that they've been using, probably for years.
There is no way out of it, at all. And that's hard for me to say as someone that has advocated for digital privacy for a long time.
Any way out we have would have to involve laws banning data collection. I don't see that happening
This is absolutely it. Insisting on existing outside of those systems is increasingly not merely impractical, but kind of insufferable.
"Sorry, I won't click the thing you're trying to share with me because I'm boycotting that platform" really just adds fiction between a person and their own social groups, no matter how valid the grievance is.
I agree that it's not practical to get 100% of the way there. Certainly not without large-scale changes everywhere that lots of people are going to do their best to resist. (I hear "what do you mean I should PAY for what XYZ offers for free?" a lot…)
Though that doesn't mean that we can't improve on what we have.
Vendor and provider lock-in is the bigger problem. If we could just somehow come up with standardized formats in which to transfer data from one service to another…
Random fursuit photo from the archives.
8 Pretty Maids in a Row.
A femme fursuit photoshoot during ConFuzzled 2013.
...I was not expecting new Wallace and Gromit... ever.
Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqrBzJ5wIc
The world's best boss - Feathers McGraw is back with a vengeance. A brand new epic Wallace & Gromit family adventure, the first full length feature film in 1...YouTube
